Politics

The ambassador in Beijing called by the Chinese authorities, his counterpart in Berlin said: “There will be negative consequences for bilateral relations”. BERLIN – In the difficult tightrope walk between defending human rights and the need to protect the gold business they have been doing for decades in China, the Germans have gone too far. At least, from the point of view of Beijing. A handshake in Berlin between Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong and…

Thousands under the American consulate with the stars and stripes flags: “Trump help us”. Then the clashes with the police return: vandalized the subway entrances, some surveillance cameras destroyed. Some stars and stripes had already been seen in recent weeks among the masked demonstrators in Hong Kong. But this Sunday afternoon there are dozens of people waving under the gates of the American consulate. Thousands of citizens have come to invoke US aid, of Donald…

29-year-old Madeleine Westerhout shared information about the president’s family during a dinner with journalists at a hotel near her golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, without saying that her statements were ‘off the record’. She had been at Donald Trump’s side since he joined the White House. However, the personal assistant of the American president, Madeleine Westerhout, 29, has resigned. This was reported by an informed source to CNN, confirming the first rumors about it…

Since the very first day in the office, Trump has made the elimination of federal regulations a top priority. His administration, supported fully by the Republicans in Congress, targeted environmental rules as overly burdensome to fossil fuel industries – including major Obama-era aimed at fighting climate change. An analysis made from the New York Times, collaborating with Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School, counted nearly 80 environmental rules on the way out under Trump. The list…

The Trump administration took its final step to weaken the Endangered Species Act, a law that brought the bald eagle, American alligator, and other animals back from the brink of extinction. A couple of new rules will allow the administration to reduce the amount of habitat saved for wildlife, and also reduce tools that predict future harm to specific species as a result of climate change. It would additionally reveal for the first time in…

The administration argued that federal law allows firing workers for “being transgender”. The Trump administration official hit a new low on homosexual discrimination earlier this week. It asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire workers if they’re homosexual. An amicus brief filed by the Justice Department displayed two cases involving homosexual workers and what is meant by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ’64 – which bans…

Abortion Abortion is a medical procedure to end a pregnancy. There are two main ways on how to have an abortion; medical or known as the abortion pill and surgical abortion. Medical abortion is mostly up to nine weeks since your last period, whereas the surgical abortion is up to 23 weeks. When talking about abortion, Ireland is a country that sees abortion as an illegal action which an act like this can be punished…

Introduction The whole perception of human rights concedes that every human is allowed to enjoy her/his rights regardless of what color they have, what religion, origin or political view. “Human rights law” has guaranteed human rights such as protecting individuals from things that interfere in the human dignity and basic freedoms (Resources for Speakers, 2011). Human rights are articulated also in treaties, in the international law of customary, and in some other bases of law.…

Introduction The Fourteen Points of Wilson had the aim to revolutionize the international affairs between nations. It hoped to achieve the peaceful settlement of conflicts by new diplomacy and new measures. He proposed that all territories that were occupied to be evacuated. And that a disarmament process should be initiated with Germany and Italy disarmed firstly. He proposed a program which would bring the world to peace which was represented by his 14 points. The…

The global economy Humanity and the Earth, faced with rapidly increasing social tensions, economic uncertainty and ecological disparities, is considered to be involved in a never ending turbulent period, where the ongoing dynamics are shaping the present and building the corner-stone based on which the future will be built upon. The orientation in a world of increasing complexity, competition and uncertainty requires the gathering of the right information, in the right time and the right…

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